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Come along with us as we dive straight into what could be the future of gaming graphics, direct from the CES 2025 show floor. NVIDIA's keynote marked the official unveiling of the GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs and their crown jewel, DLSS 4. The show was a non-stop roundabout of announcements, but we had the opportunity...
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Let's talk about frame generation on integrated graphics for a moment. It's not an entirely novel concept; not only does AMD's FSR3 frame generation work on integrated graphics, but AMD has its driver-based AFMF 2 technology that has a dedicated mode for the integrated GPUs in its products.
With the launch of its...
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A recent World Economic Forum (WEF) survey reveals that 41% of employers are planning to lay off workers and replace them with AI by 2030. The January 2025 edition of the Future of Jobs Report surveyed over 1,000 employers, representing 14 million workers in 22 industries and 55 economies. In this extensive survey...
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Xbox Developer_Direct is back for a third year to give gamers a closer look at some of the games coming to the platform in 2025, including behind the scene interviews with the developers making the magic happen. This year has a solid roundup of games, with a heavy hitter alongside some brand new entries. There’s even...
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The last couple of weeks have seen numerous and varied leaks of the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware. Not only have there been leaks of the external shell and appearance, but also of the motherboard and other components. The latest leak was a gaming accessories company known as Genki showing off a very realistic "mock up" at CES 2025 that it claims
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The United States' outgoing presidential administration's last major action may be to impose strong export restrictions on technology and accelerated systems for artificial intelligence processing. The so-called "Export Control Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion" is a set of regulations that is...
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Mustang fans had nothing to worry about after all, especially after Ford suddenly ridded the Performance Package from the EcoBoost Mustang options list. As announced today, that package has been quickly replaced with the Mustang RTR EcoBoost model that apparently steals some goodies from the Dark Horse. Working in...
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On Tuesday, January 7th, 2025, NASA announced an update to its Mars Sample Return (MSR) Program, created to help scientists understand the Red Planet by bringing home Martian rock samples. The agency is now torn between two plans for bringing the samples back to Earth: recreating a previous rocket method or getting a...
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The General has announced pricing for the overachieving 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. Starting at $175,000 for the base 1LZ-trim hardtop, this ZR1 becomes the most expensive production Corvette in history. Of course, if you've been following along with our coverage of the car, you'll know that the ZR1 is also the most...
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At this point, ASUS is the main company keeping Intel's Next Unit of Computing (NUC) branding alive, after Intel decided a year and a half ago to stop making its own NUCs and instead adopt a licensing model. Not only did ASUS pounce, but it released its first ROG-branded NUC last year. Proving it wasn't a one-off...
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A Geekbench 6 listing has popped up purportedly belonging to the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S25 Slim and with it confirming that it'll pack Qualcomm's much ballyhooed Snapdragon 8 Elite. The multi-core score however (assuming it's legit) gives pause to whether the Snapdragon chip is slightly underclocked in this application or merely a fluke.
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This year's CES event brought us plenty of GPUs to be excited about, notably from team green (NVIDIA) though AMD also has some products for release soon, with its RDNA 4 GPUs. Information on these products has been mostly muted thus far (aside from a preview), with very little known about full specs, pricing, or exact...
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As we detailed in our Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, AMD's first consumer Zen 5 chip with 3D V-Cache is a beastly slice of silicon that's an ideal choice to build a gaming PC around. The market agrees, as evidenced by the chip frequently being sold out at places like Amazon and Best Buy. In candid remarks shared at the...
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The holiday season is pretty much over at this point, but hopefully you are still able to carve out some time to jump into PC gaming. Not just because there are a bunch of fancy new graphics cards on the horizon (NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series and AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT), but if you're an Amazon Prime member, you now...
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The Raspberry Pi series of economical single-board computers have many fans and not a lot of major faults, but people really enjoy using these machines for tasks far beyond their original design intentions, and that includes running AI processing on them. There's just one problem: even for inference, trained AI models...
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Monster Hunter Wilds is one of the most hotly anticipated game releases of early 2025. While players had the opportunity to participate in an open beta late last year, Capcom heard gamers' pleas to be able to get one more beta in before the game’s official release. It will mostly be the same experience seen in the...
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The January 2025 Android Security Bulletin is out, and it spells bad news for Android 12 to 15 users. The latest security update fixes 36 critical vulnerabilities, including five critical bugs in the System component. "The most severe of these issues is a critical security vulnerability in the System component that...
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This year's CES 2025 has so far exposed us to a lot of new products, especially with gaming hardware. While NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series was the notable announcement, gaming laptops featuring the GPUs are also being displayed. MSI has revealed a gorgeous Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Norse Myth laptop to utilize the...
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Among other things, Razer is showcasing some new gaming chairs at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, including a toned down (and cheaper) variant of the Iskur V2 we reviewed last March called the Iskur V2 X. One of the more interesting models, however, is a prototype called Project Arielle, a mesh gaming...
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NVIDIA is promising some monster gains from its new flagship graphics card, the GeForce RTX 5090. That's especially true if taking advantage of a new DLSS implementation, DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, which is a whole topic in and of itself. DLSS or no DLSS, the GeForce RTX 5090 is a beast, based on the specs...
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Well, that was fast. The OnePlus 13 is barely launched—check out our OnePlus 13 review from earlier this week—yet it is already available with some compelling offers. We like this phone (a lot) even without any added incentives, but we also won't turn our nose up at a bargain when the opportunity presents itself, as...
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Arguably the biggest announcement at CES 2025 was NVIDIA's debut of the GeForce RTX 50 series, led by the flagship GeForce RTX 5090. This card defies expectations in a lot of ways; even though the rest of the GeForce RTX 50 series is made up of largely incremental upgrades over the GeForce RTX 40 series—based on the specs, anyway—the GeForce
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